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Former Army command sergeant major Donald McAlister is hard ass— no two ways about it. But after a brutal deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan, he figures out that his toughest challenge is learning how to grieve.

In search of support, Kitty calls a friend who cared for her husband with Parkinson's.

When her dad takes an impromptu road trip across the Midwest, Kitty is forced to reckon with his declining health.

Inspired over the decades by the farm-to-table movement of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, Dorsey Barger has pursued her businesses as a zealot. Barger’s East Side Cafe in Austin, TX, and now urban farm are part of her mission to improve the way we eat, and the way we grow food.

When Vera Deckard's obsession for brewing began to overwhelm their modest house, her husband Brent suggested they go pro. They set out to create a German-style brewpub that could serve as a third space, a neighborhood meeting place for friends and families. Success, to them, means delighting customers and attracting employees who want to run their own brewpub some day.

Dwight Hobart is a restaurateur, rancher, and storytelling original whose family roots go back to settling the Texas Panhandle. We talked during the COVID pandemic about running the Liberty Bar in San Antonio, and what success means to him in this venture. We also talk about the highs and lows of commodity markets, whether the ranching business is built on socialist principles, and maintaining the respect of his peers.Subscribe to new episodes of No Hill For A Climber on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast app.

Neil Leatherbury is a bioscientist who left San Antonio, and then left Texas, to work for a biotechnology company in Durham, NC. We talk about how his own career may illustrate the “cluster theory” of business. We talk about the nature of risk, optimism, and that “failure is the default” when it comes to biotechnology startups. Finally, we discuss what it's like to be out of the closet, corporate “allyship” in 2021, and the struggle to recruit under-represented minorities to the life sciences.

Jungmin Kang built an astonishing entrepreneurial success by cracking the code of Instagram and then TikTok, amassing millions of followers for her business Snoop Slime. We talk about the "satisfying videos" that power her marketing, the genius of her restock model, and how she defines success. Also, she's 17 years old and juggles the demands of exponential business growth with high school. Subscribe for more episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast app.

Stuart Allen is an artist in San Antonio, a working artist, who vehemently rejects the myth of the starving artist. He practices and models in his own career the idea that the artist needs to be a small business person. Tracking Inventory. Accounts Receivable. Appropriate Technology Innovation and Investment. Time Management. Small business basics. Too much of the art world, he believes, misunderstands the “working artist as small business owner” mindset. Too much of our society thinks money and art cannot coexist. Too many art schools train art teachers, rather than artists. We talk about this and more in this conversation that touches on his successes, his setbacks, his first big break, and whether he is too cheap.

Paula Harris smashes expectations like it's her life mission. We talk about what it was like as the only African American woman in the Texas A&M Petroleum Engineering Department, and then again as an outlier on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Paula later led ESG efforts for oil and gas services company Schlumberger, and we talk about the industry's authentic need to evolve and support the energy transition to renewables as well as transition to being more inclusive. In the end, she considers her success in building a different kind of pipeline, one that would make it easier to build a more equitable and just world.